Table 2: Pain perception: mean and median pain score comparisons given by each group (juvenile fibromyalgia, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and the healthy control) after the presentation of the following vignettes: physical trauma (bicycle fall), medical procedure (a shot), and social deprivation (isolation by a group of children).
| Mean | SD | Median | Minimum | Maximum | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients and controls | |||||||
| Physical trauma | JFM | 7.5(1) | 1.8 | - | - | - | <0.0001* |
| JIA | 4.7(2) | 2.6 | - | - | - | ||
| Control | 4.0(2) | 2.3 | - | - | - | ||
| Medical procedure | JFM | 8.5(1) | 2.1 | - | - | - | <0.0001* |
| JIA | 3.5(3) | 3.2 | - | - | - | ||
| Control | 7.1(2) | 2.2 | - | - | - | ||
| Social deprivation | JFM | - | - | 10.0(A) | 4 | 10 | <0.0001** |
| JIA | - | - | 6.0(B) | 1 | 10 | ||
| Control | - | - | 7.0(B) | 0 | 10 | ||
| Parents | |||||||
| Physical trauma | JFM | 6.8(1) | 2.2 | - | - | - | <0.0001* |
| JIA | 5.4(2) | 2.9 | - | - | - | ||
| Control | 3,7(3) | 2.6 | - | - | - | ||
| Medical procedure | JFM | - | 2.6 | - | - | - | <0.0001* |
| JIA | - | 3.3 | - | - | - | ||
| Control | - | 2.9 | - | - | - | ||
| Social deprivation | JFM | - | - | 10.0(A) | 5 | 10 | <0.0001** |
| JIA | - | - | 6.5(B) | 0 | 10 | ||
| Control | - | - | 7.0(C) | 0 | 10 | ||
SD: standard deviation; JFM: juvenile fibromyalgia; JIA: juvenile idiopathic arthritis; (1), (2) and (3) show different means according to the C and Dennet multiple comparisons with a global significance of 5%; (A), (B) and (C) had different means and a global significance of 5% via the Mann-Whitney tests with the Bonferroni correction; *descriptive level from the ANOVA test; **descriptive level from the Kruskal-Wallis test.